Ramp up your career with LPI certifications.

For IT professionals who want their Linux and open source skills verified in order to boost their career momentum, why wait? According to the Foote Partners report, ‘IT Skills and Certification Index’, there’s double-digit growth in bonuses paid to LPI certified candidates.

88% say IT certified employees are rewarded (bonus and pay increase) for obtaining IT certification.

94% expect IT certification to grow in importance over the next two years.

88% believe it’s important to test after training to confirm knowledge gains.

97% value certification enough to provide support for IT employees obtaining certification.

The open source Jobs Report says hiring managers are looking for open source professionals.

34% are willing to aid with the cost of an employee's open source certification

59% are looking to increase open source hiring

74% have a need for developers

58% are seeking DevOps professionals

65% report open source hiring will rise more than hiring in other departments

87% say it's hard to find open source talent

"ManpowerGroup recently found that 36% of employers globally reported talent shortages in 2014—the highest percentage in seven years. In the United States, more than half (54%) of employers currently have open positions for which they can’t find qualified candidates. Unemployment rates for highly skilled workers continue to fall, job openings are on the rise and companies are finding an increased need to focus their attention on finding staff with job-specific skills needed to meet rapidly changing technologies.”

— ITCC, 2016 white paper, ’The trends that will affect the IT certification industry by 2020’

How open source professionals keep their skills up to date:

open source Jobs Report 2016

LPI tops the list of Linux certs by population according to Certification Magazine

LPI is a non profit organization.

LPI is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 600,000 exams delivered, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in 9 languages, and has hundreds of training partners.

Our purpose is to enable economic and creative opportunities for everybody by making open source knowledge and skills certification universally accessible.